Don Brown Position: Defensive Coordinator/Linebackers Experience: 32nd year coaching Alma Mater: Norwich '77

COACHING ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Is in his 32nd year coaching, his 17th as a defensive coordinator and his first as defensive coordinator at Boston College; spent 12 seasons as a head coach at three different institutions - Plymouth State (1993-95), Northeastern (2000-03) and Massachusetts (2004-08); compiled a combined record of 95-45.
• One of the premier defensive coaches in the Northeast, came to Boston College after serving as defensive coordinator and corner backs coach at Connecticut for two seasons (2011-12); spearheaded a defense that ranked among the nation's best in several statistical categories - yards per game allowed (10th, 309.9 ypg, 2012), scoring defense (22nd, 19.8 ppg, 2012), rushing defense (fourth, 85.7 ypg, 2011) sacks (13th, 2.8, 2011) and tackles for loss (19th, 7.3, 2011).
• Served as defensive coordinator and corner backs coach at Maryland for two seasons (2009-10) prior to his two-year tenure at Connecticut.
• Went 43-19 as head coach at Massachusetts from 2004-08; guided the Minutemen to their best five-year span in program history (.694 win percentage).
• Led the Minutemen to consecutive NCAA FCS postseason berths, consecutive conference titles and a 23-5 combined record from 2006-07; team captured the 2006 Atlantic 10 title with a perfect 8-0 record, won a school-record 12 games in a row, finished 13-2 and advanced to the national championship game.
• Earned American Football Coaches Association Region I Coach of the Year honors in 2006; also earned Atlantic 10 and New England Coach of the Year honors that season.
• Led Northeastern to a combined record of 27-20 in four seasons as head coach (2000-03); went 18-7 in his last two seasons leading the Huskies, including a 10-3 record and the school's lone appearance in the NCAA Division I-AA playoffs in 2002.
• Served as defensive coordinator at Massachusetts during the 1998 and 1999 seasons; helped guide the Minutemen to two of the best seasons in school history as the 1998 team posted an overall record of 12-3 and won the Division I-AA national championship.
• Served as the defensive coordinator at Brown University for two years (1996-97).
• Went 25-6 (.806 win percentage) as head coach at Plymouth State from 1993-95; led the Panthers to a pair of Division III playoff appearances.
• Prior to his time at Plymouth State he was the defensive coordinator at Dartmouth (1984-86) and Yale (1987-92) and an assistant coach at Mansfield (Pa.) University (1983).
• Began his collegiate coaching career as an assistant at Dartmouth in 1982 after five seasons (1977-1982) at Hartford High School in White River Junction, Vt.

• Starred at running back at Norwich University from 1973-76
• Earned a bachelor's degree from Norwich University in 1977
• A member of the Norwich University Hall of Fame
• Earned his master's degree from Plymouth State in 1996
• A native of Spencer, Mass.

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